Hawks continue bid for title with 3-game tilt in Nebraska
Kansas' suprising baseball team, continuing it's bid for the Big Eight title, makes its last road trip of the season this weekend with a crucial series against Nebraska at Lincoln.
Kansas goes into this series in sole possession of second place with a 7-4 record and 12-5 overall. Nebraska is fourth in the league at 5-5 and 9-8 overall. Iowa State still leads the Big Eight at 8-1.
The three-game set opens Friday with a doubleheader. A single game winds up the series Saturday.
Heavy hitting carried the Jayhawks to a two-games-to-one advantage over Missouri last week. The excellent pitching KU had been receiving from its young hurlers buckled a bit under the Tigers' lusty hitting.
Kansas came up with its heaviest hitting series of the year to counter Missouri's bats. Third baseman Keith Lieppman, who could become KU's first .400 hitter since Steve McGreevy hit 400 in 1964, went 5-12, drove in four runs and is now batting .424. Shortstop Paul Womble, who leads the team in home runs and RBIs, went 4-10, including his fifth home run, and drove in seven runs. Womble has now knocked in 20 runs this year. He's hitting .378.
Outfielder-first baseman Skip James was 7-11 with three runs batted into boost his average to 421. His bases loaded single in the eighth inning of Friday's second game pulled the Jayhawks from behind to give them a 6-5 victory.
The pitching wasn't all shaky as reliever Bob Kaufman came
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on in trouble twice to pick up victories. He was credited with Friday's triumph after ending the Missouri rally in the eighth. Then, on Saturday with Missouri ahead 3-2, he relieved Corky Ullom in the fourth inning with one out and the bases loaded. He pitched out of the jam and went on to record his third victory in a 10-5 Jayhawk decision.
"All year we've had great pitching and poor fielding," coach Floyd Temple said. "This time it was the other way around. I think I'd rather have the good pitching."
With 12 victories KU has equaled last year's output when the Jayhawks were 12-14.
BATTING
<table><thead><tr><th rowspan="2">Player</th><th colspan="10">BATTING</th><th colspan="4">FIELDING</th></tr><tr><th>g</th><th>ab</th><th>r</th><th>h</th><th>rb1</th><th>rb2</th><th>3b</th><th>br1</th><th>sb</th><th>s</th><th>sf</th><th>hp</th><th>bb</th><th>so</th><th>pa</th><th>o</th><th>a</th><th>pct</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Lleppman</td><td>17</td><td>59</td><td>16</td><td>2</td><td>14</td><td>5</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>.424</td><td>18</td><td>33</td><td>10</td><td>.836</td></tr><tr><td>James</td><td>17</td><td>57</td><td>11</td><td>24</td><td>14</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>.424</td><td>18</td><td>33</td><td>10</td><td>.836</td></tr><tr><td>Temple</td><td>8</td><td>17</td><td>1</td><td>17</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>5</td><td>1</td><td>.412</td><td>15</td><td>2</td><td>1.000</td><td>1.000</td></tr><tr><td>Womble</td><td>17</td><td>45</td><td>11</td><td>17</td><td>20</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>5</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>15</td><td>.378</td><td>12</td><td>33</td><td>7</td><td>.865</td></tr><tr><td>Warpio</td><td>13</td><td>33</td><td>4</td><td>11</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>9</td><td>.333</td><td>18</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>.1000</td></tr><tr><td>Riggs</td><td>16</td><td>57</td><td>1</td><td>15</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>5</td><td>11</td><td>.281</td><td>21</td><td>3</td><td>2.923</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Snelgrove</td><td>17</td><td>59</td><td>10</td><td>15</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>5</td><td>11</td><td>.281</td><td>21</td><td>3</td><td>38</td><td>6.923</td></tr><tr><td>Higgins</td><td>15</td><td>20</td><td>2</td><td>4</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>.200</td><td>19</td><td>5</td><td>1</td><td>.995</td></tr><tr><td>Matson</td><td>17</td><td>42</td><td>2</td><td>8</td><td>5</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>5</td><td>.190</td><td>88</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>.995</td></tr><tr><td>Nelson</td><td>17</td><td>39</td><td>9</td><td>7</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>.179</td><td>20</td><td>9</td><td>1</td><td>.995</td></tr></tbody></table>
PITCHING
| Player | pp gs cg | inn. | h | r | er | eb | so wp | hp bk | w | l | era |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Ullom | 5 | 5 | 2 28½ | 20 | 10 | 4 | 15 | 20 | 0 | 3 | 1.26 |
| Wolf | 6 | 1 | 1 18½ | 14 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1.47 |
| Stilgemann | 8 | 6 | 1 37½ | 19 | 13 | 7 | 15 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1.67 |
| Kaufmeier | 5 | 2 | 0 12 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2.84 |
| Robsch | 4 | 3 | 1 17½ | 14 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2.84 |
| Aldridge | 2 | 0 | 0 22½ | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13.50 |
GORDON GREAT FIELDER
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)—Joe Gordon, Royal's field boss, shares or holds 10 World Series fielding records. Gordon played in 6 World Series as a member of the New York Yankees as well as 8 All-Star games during his 11-year career as a second baseman for New York, Cleveland and Detroit.
TEACHES WELL
CINCINNATI (UPI)—Five proteges of Cincinnati Bengals coach Paul Brown were head coaches in the professional ranks last season—Otto Graham at Washington, Weeb Ewbank at the New York Jets, Blanton Collier at Cleveland, Don Shula at Baltimore and Charley Winner at St. Louis,
Royals release Adair
The 33-year-old former Oklahoma State University basketball and baseball star who helped Boston's late-season surge to the American League pennant in 1967 has a lifetime batting average of .255.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)— Infielder Jerry Adair, a 13-year major league veteran who holds four fielding records, was placed on waivers Tuesday by the Kansas City Royals.
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Adair, who batted .250 as the Royals regular second baseman last season, was hitting only .148 this year with four hits in 27 at bats. He had missed much of spring training because of an illness which claimed his daughter's life last April 9. She was 6 years old. Adair has three other children.
"There is some point in every player's career in which he cannot measure up to standards of play which are necessary," said Cedric Tallis, Royals' general manager and executive vice president. "It is with great regret we take this action because Jerry has had a fine major league career, but we felt it was necessary."
Adair helped the Red Sox win the American League pennant in 1967. Obtained in a mid-season trade from the Chicago White Sox, he batted .291 for Boston in 89 games.
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